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(July 31, 2005) 2005 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS
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WILL SMITH VIDEO
Nominations for the 22nd MTV Video Music Awards were announced
this past Monday. After a year of directing several high-profile and
high-rotation videos, Paul Hunter's videos managed to get a total of 6
nominations. Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl got four
nominations, including Video of the Year, Best Female Video,
Best Pop Video, and Best Choreography. Also getting
a nomination for Video of the Year is Snoop & Pharrell's
Drop It Like It's Hot, which also got nominated for Best
Hip-Hop Video. The awards will be handed out on August 28 in
Miami, with P. Diddy hosting.
click here
to link MTV.com for a full list of nominations
Paul Hunter directed a series of
commercials for Burger King, to promote their new Chicken Fries
product. The commercials, which began airing this past Monday, feature
a fake "chicken"-inspired rock band named Coq Roq (the band
members wear chicken masks). Paul Hunter has directed two full
music videos for the tracks Bob Your Head and
Cross The Road, which will air as commercials. The
'band' also has a full website (coqroq.com)
where fans can download ringtones, MP3's, and view the videos.
click here to read press release about Coq Roq |
read about the ad campaign |
visit coqroq.com
According to
MTV.com, Paul Hunter
shot a new video for Will Smith's upcoming single Party
Starter in Manhattan Beach earlier this month.
click here to read article about the video-shoot at mtv.com
(July 6, 2005) PAUL HUNTER SHOOTS VIDEO FOR THICKE
MTV.com reported last
week that Paul Hunter recently shot a video for Wanna Love You
Girl by R&B artist Thicke feat. Pharrell Williams.
click here to read blurb at MTV.com
(thanks to Devin A. & Elttil for the info)
(May 10, 2005) STEVIE WONDER & PUSSYCAT DOLLS VIDEOS
PREMIERE
The new Paul Hunter-directed video for Stevie Wonder, So
What The Fuss, premiered yesterday at a press conference in Los
Angeles. The video will premiere online (on
Yahoo! Music) on
Wednesday, and on cable outlets in the next week or so.
click here to read article about the press conference
The Paul Hunter-directed Pussycat Dolls
video, Don't Cha, is now out. The video can be
viewed in streaming format at
Launch.com.
(May 6, 2005)
MORE INFO ON STEVIE WONDER VIDEO
In a Motown press-release released yesterday, the new Paul Hunter-directed video for
Stevie Wonder's So What The Fuss is being billed as the first
ever "descriptive music video", as the video will carry an audio track
from rapper Busta Rhymes. This feature (used to describe the
visuals on television programming, for blind and low vision viewers)
would be accessed using the SAP (Second Audio Program) function on
equipped televisions. The standard and enhanced versions of the
video will premiere in Los Angeles on Monday (May 9) and two days later
online at Yahoo! Music.
click here to read
press release at Yahoo! Biz
(May 4, 2005) PAUL HUNTER SHOOTS VIDEO FOR STEVIE WONDER
According to the official Stevie Wonder website (steviewonder.net),
a video for his upcoming single So What The Fuss was shot
within the past 2 weeks by Paul Hunter. Paul has directed Stevie
Wonder before, as he made a cameo appearance in the Paul Hunter-directed
Will Smith video Wild, Wild West.
(thanks to Mark Q for the info)
(April 14, 2005) PAUL HUNTER SHOOTS VIDEO FOR PUSSYCAT
DOLLS/BUSTA RHYMES
MTV.com reported last
week that Paul Hunter was scheduled to shoot a new video for the
Pussycat Dolls feat. Busta Rhymes, Don't Cha sometime
this week in Los Angeles.
(thanks to Brandon N., Cihan for the info)
(April 5, 2005) GWEN STEFANI VIDEO PREMIERES
The new Gwen Stefani video Hollaback Girl (directed
by Paul Hunter) premiered early last week on
MTV's Total Request
Live. The video features Gwen and a whole crowd of kids strutting
through a highschool hallway, supermarket aisle, and a football field.
These scenes are intermixed with scenes of Gwen, her entourage of
Harajuku girls, a highschool marching band, and cheerleading squad all
performing and dancing against a plain black set (similar to the one
used in Paul Hunter's Nike Freestyle commercial) Pharell Williams
(who produced the track) makes a quick cameo. Great video.
(thanks to Cihan for the info)
(March 28, 2005) SNOOP DOGG VIDEO PREMIERES
The new Paul Hunter-directed video
Signs (by Snoop Dogg feat. Justin Timberlake & Charlie Wilson)
premiered this past Wednesday (March 23) on MTV Total Request Live.
The video was shot on March 7-8 in Las Vegas. Possibly the best
Las Vegas-shot video (making full use of the flashy lit casino facades
along the Las Vegas Strip) since 1997's Hype Williams-directed video for
Mase's Feel So Good.
click snoopdogg.com to view the video in streaming Windows Media, Real
Video and Quicktime formats
(thanks to Julian R. for the info)
(March 10, 2005)
MORE INFO ON SNOOP DOGG VIDEO
Here is more info on the Paul Hunter-shot
video for Signs, for Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell Williams & Justin
Timberlake. The information for the video shoot was found on
extrasformovies.com, an online casting posting site. The posting
listed that the video was to be shot March 7-8 (this past Monday &
Tuesday) in Las Vegas. The producers were looking for a lead girl,
female extras, and male extras. An interesting note: the
male extras roles were to be for males 40-60 years old, "old mafioso
types, gangsters, gamblers".
click here to read casting call posting at extrasformovies.com
(thanks to sierra for the info)
(March 9, 2005)
PAUL HUNTER SHOOTS VIDEO FOR GWEN STEFANI
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SNOOP DOGG VIDEO?
MTV.com posted
that Paul Hunter has shot the next video for Gwen Stefani, for
her track Hollaback Girl. Because of the high school
references in the song, the video was shot at a Southern California high
school. In one scene, Gwen drives a yellow sports car with her
entourage of Harajuku girls in tow.
click here to read article on MTV.com
(thanks to Jose D, Brandon N, and Ugi U for the info)
Rumor has it that Paul Hunter may, or has
already, shot the video for the 3rd single off of Snoop Dogg's
album Rhythm & Gangsta: The Masterpiece -- for the track
Signs (featuring Justin Timberlake). Unconfirmed
rumour at this point, but would not be surprising if true, as Paul has
already shot the first two videos off the album: Drop It Like It's
Hot and Let's Get Blown.
(thanks to sierra for the info)
(February 9, 2005)
WILL SMITH VIDEO PREMIERES
Will Smith was on
BET 106 & Park yesterday to promote his new movie Hitch, as
well as premiere the video for a track from the movie, entitled
Switch. It was reported on
paul-hunter.com
that the video was shot back in August 2004 in Los Angeles.
(thanks to Anthony E. for the info)
(February 3, 2005)
PAUL HUNTER WILL NOT DIRECT UPCOMING MARIAH CAREY VIDEO
MTV.com reports
that Paul Hunter will NOT direct the upcoming Mariah Carey video
It's Like That. It was previously reported that
Mariah had hand-picked Paul Hunter to shoot her video, but Brett Ratner
(who previously shot her Heartbreaker video) will be shooting it
instead.
click here to read article
(January 17, 2005)
PAUL HUNTER TO DIRECT UPCOMING VIDEO FOR MARIAH CAREY
MTV.com posted
last week that Paul Hunter was hand-picked by Mariah Carey to
direct the video for her upcoming comeback single It's Like That.
Paul Hunter has previously worked with Mariah Carey, directing her video
Honey back in 1997.
(thanks to Cihan for the info)
(December 31, 2004 -
January 17, 2005)
2004 Year End Review
Paul Hunter directed only a handful of videos this year. One
that garnered a lot of attention is beautifully shot black & white video
for Snoop Dogg feat. Pharell Williams for Drop It Like It's
Hot. He also directed ones for N.E.R.D. (Maybe),
Mos Def (Sex, Love, and Money), newcomer Van Hunt (Down
Here In Hell), and the most recent Snoop Dogg video
Let's Get Blown. While his video work was scarce, Paul
Hunter spent most of 2004 doing more commercial work: directing
commercial campaigns for over 14 companies including Diet Coke, iPod/HP
(a series of musical "mash up" clips), Nintendo Game Boy Advance,
Samsung, Honda, Nike, Sony, Target (featuring rocker Lenny Kravitz),
Virgin Mobile (featuring a hilarious Busta Rhymes), Gatorade (featuring
LL Cool J), V8, Reebok, Got Milk? and a PSA for Voting. Look for more commercial work
coming from Paul Hunter in 2005, and more higher profile video work.
(it was just announced that Mariah Carey hand-picked Paul to
direct the video for her upcoming comeback single It's Like That
in early 2005)
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